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Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971

Title
  1. Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 / Kevin M. Boylan.
Published by
  1. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Author
  1. Boylan, Kevin M.

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Description
  1. ix, 366 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Focusing on WASHINGTON GREEN, an ambitious but flawed American-led operation, Boylan tests and ultimately challenges the "Lost Victory" argument of recent Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War. Those histories contend that domestic politics robbed the American military of a triumph it had actually already achieved when it was forced to abandon Vietnam. Taking a much closer look at pacification and Vietnamization in a key province during a pivotal period in the war, Boylan concludes that the "Lost Victory" argument is a weak one at best and clearly compromised by the particular case of Binh Dinh"--
Series statement
  1. Modern war studies
Uniform title
  1. Modern war studies.
Subject
  1. Counterinsurgency
  2. United States > Army > Airborne Brigade, 173rd
  3. Vietnam War (1961-1975)
  4. United States > Army > Airborne Brigade, 173rd > History
  5. Bình Định (Vietnam : Province) > History
  6. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns > Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
  7. Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
  8. 1961-1975
  9. History
  10. Counterinsurgency > Vietnam > Bình Định (Province)
  11. Military campaigns
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. The "pacified" province -- Fast and thin -- The balance of forces -- Washington Green : phase I -- Overextension -- The red queen's race -- Slowdown -- Aftershocks -- Conclusion : triumph mistaken.
Call number
  1. JFE 17-1738
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index.
Author
  1. Boylan, Kevin M., author.
Title
  1. Losing Binh Dinh : the failure of pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 / Kevin M. Boylan.
Publisher
  1. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Modern war studies
  2. Modern war studies.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index.
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  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
  3. Table of contents only
Chronological term
  1. 1961-1975
LCCN
  1. 2016036373
Other standard identifier
  1. 40026744330
ISBN
  1. 9780700623525 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0700623523
Research call number
  1. JFE 17-1738
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